i said, have you ever contemplated committing the perfect murder? and he said, yes. the key element to that is making sure that someone is caught. once i have somebody, they will stop looking and that s how you can get away. a cold blooded killing, a victim worth millions, and all kinds of conflicting clues. i ve never had a case is complicated before. police following multiple leads until we asked, who is that? he says he s my neighbor, he lives two floors below. a suspect under arrest. having someone you love just taken away. sorry.! case closed. where was that? could there be something else or someone else they must? there were so many parts of the puzzle that we re not adding up. someone had pulled the trigger. but had someone else pulls the strings? he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into a fortune. hello. and welcome to dateline. they were neighbors living large and their salt lake city aloft building. a sophist
making sure that someone is caught. once they have someone they will stop looking and that s how you can get away. a cool blooded killing, a victim worth millions. all kinds of conflicting clues. i ve never had a case is complicated before. police following multiple leads until we asked, who is that? he says he s my neighbor, he lives two floors below. a suspect under arrest. having someone you love just taken away. sorry.! case closed. where was that? could there be something else or someone else they must? there were so many parts of the puzzle that we re not adding up. someone had pulled the trigger. but had someone else pulled the strings? he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into a fortune. hello. and welcome to dateline. they were neighbors living large and their salt lake city aloft building. a sophisticated crowd who enjoyed mixing business with pleasure. then a murder revealed a phony in our midst. a man they claim
chris was arrested, he seemed nervous, and now he was gone. and so they wondered, was david novak running from something? the locked friends began reexamining those stories david told him over the years, particularly those about his criminal past. i started comparing notes and stories, and it becomes clear. wow, david told me a different version of that. he s been lying, to put it rather bluntly? certainly not full truths. the brief prison term for mail fraud, turned out there is more to that story. a lot more. novak confessed to a con played out like a cinematic thriller. he used a private flying club he owned to run an insurance scam. then, as it caught up to him, he attempted to escape by faking his own death. ditched his airplane in puget sound. the fact is dead death in order to avoid insurance audit. that was not a crime of passion,
clear. wow, david told me a different version of that. he s been lying, to put it rather bluntly? certainly not full truths. the brief prison term for mail fraud, turned out there is more to that story. a lot more. novak confessed to a con played out like a cinematic thriller. he used a private flying club he owned to run an insurance scam. then, as it caught up to him, he attempted to escape by faking his own death. ditched his airplane in puget sound. the fact is dead death in order to avoid insurance audit. that was not a crime of passion, that was a crime of calculation. or so the loft friends believed and if that was true, what might he have done here in salt lake? the suspicion only grew on the friends found out novak left town without mentioning it was he who fingered chris in that surveillance photo. did he ever tell you, i
re-examining all the stories david told them over the years, particularly about his criminal past. we started comparing notes and stories and wow, david told me a different version of that. reporter: they d been lying, to put it rather bluntly. not the truth. reporter: the brief stint for mail fraud, turned out there was more to that store pep novak confessed to a con that played out like a cinematic thriller. he ran an insurance scam. then as it caught up with him, he attempted to escape by faking his own death. ditched his airplane in puget sound. he faked his death in order to avoid insurance audit. that was not a crime of passion. that was a crime of calculation. reporter: or so the loft friends believed. and if that was true, what might he have done here in salt lake? their suspicion only grew when the friends found out novak left town without mentioning it was he who fingered chris in that surveillance photo. did he ever tell you that i identified christopher? no, n